Pasquale Misuraca
Pasquale Misuraca (* 1948 in Siderno ) is an Italian film director , documentary filmmaker and screenwriter , sociologist and writer .
Misuraca studied painting and sculpture in Reggio Calabria , then architecture and sociology in the Italian capital. In the 1970s he held seminars at La Sapienza University , in later years as a visiting professor in Santiago de Chile and again in Rome. Misuraca worked for the RAI and for advertising and made the first of his adventurous films, all of which disappeared almost unnoticed from the few cinemas in which they were shown, 1986. Angelus notus was a homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini , about the Calabrian Misuraca also released a documentary, Pasolini's Ashes , in 1993. The Non ho parole , created in 1991, is also full of visual ideas and shows the “dissolution of standardized narrative forms”, which the audience hardly appreciated. In the mid-1990s, he switched to short films.
For many years Misuraca has also been writing novels and short stories, haikus and essays.
Filmography (selection)
- 1987: Angelus notus
- 1991: Non ho parole - I have no words (Non ho parole)
- 1993: Pasolini's Ashes (Le ceneri di Pasolini) (documentary)
Web links
- Pasquale Misuraca in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- curriculum vitae
Individual evidence
- ^ Non ho parole in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano , I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 291
- ↑ Misuracas website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Misuraca, Pasquale |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siderno |